After our initial 6 seminars based on theoretical topics, we thought we’d run the next 6 on ‘Marxism in Practice’.

We will be beginning on Saturday 9th August, 6pm, Chaplin’s Bar, Hawkins’ Street, D2. Each seminar will be at the same time and venue fortnightly thereafter.

Miles Link will be introducing the first seminar and will be put the case forward for the Frankfurt School of ideas. Western Marxism: Problems of mass culture. A lively debate will surely follow as always.

The full of programe is the following:

1. Western Marxism: Problems of mass culture – Miles Link

2. Comparing popular resistance to neoliberalism in Latin America the in 80s and 90s to the situation in Ireland in the current context of crisis – Barry Cannon (NUI Maynooth)

3. Marxist Analysis of the Trade Union movement – Andrew Phelan

4. Fundamentals of communist production and distribution – Gavin Mendel-Gleason